Why You Should Not Be Afraid of Being Alone
You may be afraid of being alone or suffering from loneliness. What if I tell you that you have ALWAYS been alone your entire life regardless of how many people physically surrounded you. There is no such thing as a SINGLE, shared reality.
Everyone’s experience of what they consider “life” is 100 percent unique to them.
My memory of how life began for me is completely different from yours.In fact, even if we literally grew up in the same household and were twins, our memories would still be completely different, because life as we remember it depends on the experiences we remember, which are vastly different from individual to individual.
Even a collective activity of ours will be remembered differently by me compared to you because I was in a reality where I was looking at you and you were in a reality where you were looking at me.
Suppose we are in a restaurant sitting in opposite chairs. I will remember it as looking at you and talking to you while eating a specific kind of food sitting on that specific chair and seeing what is in front of me and behind you.
You, being on the opposite side of the table, will remember the reality as seeing my face, seeing what is in front of you and behind me (that I cannot see.) You may also remember different points from the conversation that I remember.
Thus, even a collective experience, is a largely unique experience in the memory of the individual. Nobody else, but that particular individual experienced it.
When you sleep, “existence” ends for you alone. For everyone else, their individual existence continues, in a completely unique form for each individual.
I am not here to give you an existential crisis. I am here to remind you that solitude is not something to be feared or run from.
You came alone, you will die alone and the reality you are living in is, in fact, YOURS ALONE.
Why not learn to be a little more comfortable and happier being alone?
From my book – How to Cope With a Brutal World (2024)
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Anubhav Srivastava – Keynote Speaker, Business Consultant, Philosopher and Advisor on Raising Sovereign AI Systems.
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